The Living and the Dead : : Robert Mcnamara and Five Lives of a Lost war
Book - 1996 959.704 He 1 On Shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
Locations
Call Number: 959.704 He
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
| Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout |
959.704 He | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
"More than the two presidents he served or the 58,000 soldiers who died for his policies, Robert McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was. This brilliantly insightful, morally devastating book tells us why he believed, how he lost faith, and what his deceptions cost five of the war's witnesses and McNamara himself. In The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes McNamara's story with those of a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect. The result is a book whose exhaustive research and imaginative power turn history into an act of reckoning, damning and profoundly sympathetic, impossible to put down and impossible to forget."--Book Cover.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
No community reviews. Write one below!
PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, 1996.
Year Published: 1996
Description: 427 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
067978117X (softcover)
9780679781172 (softcover)
0679427619
9780679427612
SUBJECTS
McNamara, Robert S., -- 1916-2009.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.